Update user password via cli

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Changing the Watch4Net user's password using /administration-tool.sh tool

Environment

7.x Watch4Net

Resolution

• obtain a list of users in Watch4Net

  <APG Path>/Tools/Administration-Tool/Default/bin/administration-tool.sh https://admin:password@FrontendServer:48443/Tools/Administration-Tool/Default/listUser?disableSSLValidation=true

Example output:

-user [ -name 'admin' -id '1' ]
-user [ -name 'datacenter' -id '5' ]
-user [ -name 'network' -id '3' ]
-user [ -name 'noc-operator' -id '4' ]
-user [ -name 'storage-operator' -id '2' ]
-user [ -name 'test' -id '7' ]
-user [ -name 'ws-user' -id '6' ]

• To update the users password, obtain the -user string from the above output and update the below command accordingly.

  <APG Path/Tools/Administration-Tool/Default/bin/administration-tool.sh https://admin:password@FrontendServer:48443/Tools/Administration-Tool/Default/updateUser?disableSSLValidation=true -user [ -name 'test' -id '7' -password 'newpassword' ]